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It is October 1930, when a gathering of nineteen men at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA, USA took the first steps toward the founding of the Institute of Traffic Engineers The city was a busy place filled with cars and trucks Just four blocks from the hotel, the Boulevard of the Allies, touted as the most expensive roadway in the world at the time, was gridlocked during peak periods U S government agencies have different definitions of \'rural \' The Census Bureau defines it as any place outside an urban cluster of 2,500 or more people FHWA uses a similar definition, but with a population of 5,000 or more Regardless of the definition of what constitutes rural, these places vary widely from one another A small New England village is different from a farm town in Kansas A 5,000-acre ranch in Wyoming is nothing like a vineyard in the Finger Lakes of New York or a fishing town in Louisiana One thing they all have in common is the important role that transportation plays
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